Universality of long-wavelength behavior of composite-fermion Fermi liquid

Abstract

A recent article evaluated the long-wavelength behavior of the projected static structure factor of the composite-fermion (CF) liquid within the zeroth-order microscopic theory and found $\bar{S}(\mathbf{q})\sim q^3$, in disagreement with the $\bar{S}(\mathbf{q})\sim q^3\ln q$ behavior predicted by the Chern-Simons field theory for the Coulomb interaction. Here we consider the possibility that the discrepancy arises because the zeroth-order CF Fermi-liquid wave function used in that work does not properly capture the long wavelength behavior. We use CF diagonalization to significantly improve the wave function but do not find any evidence for $\bar{S}(\mathbf{q})\sim q^3 \ln q$ behavior. Additionally, we find that the small-$q$ behavior of $\bar{S}(\mathbf{q})$ is also insensitive to the form of the interaction between electrons, suggesting universality.